Luke George is a multidisciplinary artist creating work that spans performance, installation, craft, curation and rope. Luke was born in Lutruwita/Tasmania and resides on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. Through their work, Luke examines the dynamics of intimacy and collectivity to create ‘safe spaces’ that allow for care as well as risk.

Luke’s artistic practice is informed by queer politics and spaces, whereby people are neither singular nor isolated; bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke sees dance and performance less as spectacle than as reflexive practice, in which people examine themselves and their values through movement and interaction. Luke’s works have persistently nudged ideas of ‘expanded choreographies’ involving co-performers and audiences into communities, queering and involving intercultural, intergenerational and interspecies relationships that recognise the ripples of power and interconnection in our intimate, social, and performative lives, reimagining the ties between humans and the environment and culture we occupy.

Working across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, Luke has had notable presentations with the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Melbourne and Singapore, RISING, Dance Massive, Liveworks Festival, Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Time Based Art Festival and many more. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne), Luke has been Co-Artistic Director of Stompin Youth Dance Company (Tasmania), Co-Curator of ‘First Run’ (Melbourne), Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall (Melbourne), and is a studio artist at the Collingwood Yards. Over his career Luke has received 4 fellowships including, Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (2019) and a Chloe Monroe Fellowship (2022).